Bowie State Now 3-0 After Homecoming Victory

The Bowie State football team improved to 3-0 with a 41-14 homecoming win on Saturday against Livingstone College in a CIAA contest.

The Bulldogs had 413 yards of total offense as junior running back Ramano Flowers, a graduate of Largo High, had 82 yards on the ground on 18 carries. Bowie State is now 2-0 in the CIAA while Livingstone fell to 0-3 overall.

“I think it was a good win for the University and hopefully picked up the spirits of the alumni, students, faculty and staff after the tragic loss of one of our students (Dominique Frazier) earlier in the week," Damon Wilson, the head coach for Bowie State, said on the school's athletic website.

Frazier died on campus last week after an apparent arguement with one of her roommates at the school, and other media outlets.

A moment of silence was observed just prior to kickoff for Frazier, according to a school athletic spokesman.

Bowie State quarterback Clifton Budd completed 12 of 20 passes with two touchdowns and three interceptions. Douglas McNeil of the Bulldogs caught six passes and James Proctor caught five. Kendall Jefferson ran six times for 42 yards for Bowie State, which led 19-7 at halftime and then scored 22 points in the third quarter.

Senior linebacker Terrance Hemsley, a graduate of Gwynn Park High, had eight tackles for Bowie State and Bekewele Amadi also had eight tackles.

Bowie State threw four interceptions and fumbled three times, and lost two of them.

“We have to do a better job protecting the ball offensively, especially scoring in the red zone and we must get our defense off the field on third down and stop giving those guys an opportunity to convert," Wilson said on the school website.

The Bulldogs play on the road Saturday at Virginia Union in Richmond.